The Making of Medieval Spain
Author: Gabriel Jackson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gabriel Jackson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 894
ISBN-13: 080146871X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval Spain is brilliantly recreated, in all its variety and richness, in this comprehensive survey. Likely to become the standard work in English, the book treats the entire Iberian Peninsula and all the people who inhabited it, from the coming of the Visigoths in the fifth century to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. Integrating a wealth of information about the diverse peoples, institutions, religions, and customs that flourished in the states that are now Spain and Portugal, Joseph F. O'Callaghan focuses on the continuing attempts to impose political unity on the peninsula.O'Callaghan divides his story into five compact historical periods and discusses political, social, economic, and cultural developments in each period. By treating states together, he is able to put into proper perspective the relationships among them, their similarities and differences, and the continuity of development from one period to the next. He gives proper attention to Spain's contacts with the rest of the medieval world, but his main concern is with the events and institutions on the peninsula itself. Illustrations, genealogical charts, maps, and an extensive bibliography round out a book that will be welcomed by scholars and student of Spanish and Portuguese history and literature, as well as by medievalists, as the fullest account to date of Spanish history in the Middle Ages.
Author: Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780853235545
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Author: Peter Linehan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 780
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of medieval Spain and its historians, from the chroniclers of the Middle Ages to the revisionists of the post-Franco era. This book reveals history in the making during the 800 years between the Roman period and what is now described as the birth of the modern state.
Author: William A. Christian, Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-03-08
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 0691242941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The description for this book, Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain, will be forthcoming.
Author: Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0812203062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular wars against Islam the same crusading benefits offered to those going to the Holy Land. Joseph F. O'Callaghan clearly demonstrates that any study of the history of the crusades must take a broader view of the Mediterranean to include medieval Spain. Following a chronological overview of crusading in the Iberian peninsula from the late eleventh to the middle of the thirteenth century, O'Callaghan proceeds to the study of warfare, military finance, and the liturgy of reconquest and crusading. He concludes his book with a consideration of the later stages of reconquest and crusade up to and including the fall of Granada in 1492, while noting that the spiritual benefits of crusading bulls were still offered to the Spanish until the Second Vatican Council of 1963. Although the conflict described in this book occurred more than eight hundred years ago, recent events remind the world that the intensity of belief, rhetoric, and action that gave birth to crusade, holy war, and jihad remains a powerful force in the twenty-first century.
Author: Richard L. Kagan
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1421401657
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Monarchs throughout the ages have commissioned official histories that cast their reigns in a favorable light for future generations. These accounts, sanctioned and supported by the ruling government, often gloss over the more controversial aspects of a king's or queen’s time on the throne. Instead, they present highly selective and positive readings of a monarch’s contribution to national identity and global affairs. In Clio and the Crown, Richard L. Kagan examines the official histories of Spanish monarchs from medieval times to the middle of the 18th century. He expertly guides readers through the different kinds of official histories commissioned: those whose primary focus was the monarch; those that centered on the Spanish kingdom as a whole; and those that celebrated Spain’s conquest of the New World. In doing so, Kagan also documents the life and work of individual court chroniclers, examines changes in the practice of official history, and highlights the political machinations that influenced the redaction of such histories. Just as world leaders today rely on fast-talking press officers to explain their sometimes questionable actions to the public, so too did the kings and queens of medieval and early modern Spain. Monarchs often went to great lengths to exert complete control over the official history of their reign, physically intimidating historians, destroying and seizing manuscripts and books, rewriting past histories, and restricting history writing to authorized persons. Still, the larger practice of history writing—as conducted by nonroyalist historians, various scholars and writers, and even church historians—provided a corrective to official histories. Kagan concludes that despite its blemishes, the writing of official histories contributed, however imperfectly, to the practice of historiography itself.
Author: R. Collins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-07-30
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1403919771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of essays contains contributions from a very wide range of British, American and Spanish scholars. Its primary concern is the relationships between the various ethnic, cultural, regional and religious communities that co-existed in the Iberian peninsula in the later Middle Ages. Conflicts and mutual interactions between them are here explored in a range of both historical and literary studies, to expose something of the rich diversity of the cultural life of later medieval Spain.
Author: Vivian B Mann
Publisher: George Braziller Publishers
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780807612866
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